Patient assessment is the process an EMT or paramedic follows to evaluate an injured or ill patient. The process includes a scene size-up, which is the identification and mitigation of risks ...

The ‘Sickle Cell Patient Self Assessment of Own Health State’ form comprises three sections (figure 1). The first section taken from the standardised EQ-5D measures HRQoL in five dimensions: mobility; ...

Effective patient assessment is essential for improving care quality and ensuring that patients receive the support they need to manage their conditions. Recent research has highlighted various ...

For example, you can use the Patient Assessment Form (PAF) developed by the Case Management Society of America (CMSA), which covers domains such as medical history, functional status, mental ...

Falls can be serious at any age but, as people get older, their risk of falling increases, often with catastrophic ...

In this context, there is accumulating evidence that structured, disease-specific or ‘customised’ patient assessment forms may have a significant impact on the quality of documentation, as well as the ...

Objectives This study investigates risk of mortality associated with nurses’ assessments of patients by physiological system. We hypothesise that nursing assessments of in-patients performed at entry ...